Mountain Lion Tip: Change Your Twitter Pic Right From Photo Booth
There is a much higher level of Twitter integration in Mountain Lion. For instance, you can tweet right from the Notification Center or share links from...
Mountain Lion Adds Pinch To Zoom Gesture To Quick Look
The ability to quickly check out a file by selecting it and then hitting the space bar to see a larger, live view of a...
Customize Your Hosts File With This Sweet Preference Pane
If you want a line of text, modem.com for example, to resolve to the internal IP of your modem, you’re going to need to change...
Turn Your Emails Into Reminders In Mountain Lion
We all receive a lot of email. The last thing we want to do is end up with a pile of messages in our inbox....
Mountain Lion: Stream All System Audio Over AirPlay To An Apple TV For Free
Did you know that you can send all system audio from Mountain Lion to an AirPlay device? We’re not talking about the AirPlay mirroring functionality...
Tip: Find Your Deleted RSS Feeds In Mountain Lion’s Mail.app
If you updated to Mountain Lion, and you used Mail.app as your default RSS reader, you’re probably having a bad time right about now, wondering...
Save The CPUs, Kill The Dashboard Once And For All
Listen, the Dashboard is pretty useless for most people, and I’m really tired of jumping too far back from workspace to workspace and landing in...
Reduce File Size Bloat On Web Images With Acorn
Just because our homes, businesses, and wireless broadband speeds are making great leaps doesn’t mean we need to stop caring about using huge photos on...
Get Rid Of The iOS YouTube Problem Once And For All
I bet you’ve been elbows deep in reading a fantastic article on the web, then the author mentions a YouTube video. I bet you’ve clicked...
How To: Downgrade From iOS 6 Beta To iOS 5.1.1
A way to install and run iOS 6 beta without a developer account was recently discovered. For those of you who have already installed it,...
Taming iTunes — Ratings And Smart Playlists
Over the years, iTunes has become an Apple fan’s go-to application. Sync devices, buy apps, download movies, or listen to music; it’s the central hub...
Five Safari Keyboard Shortcuts That’ll Have You Abandoning Chrome In No Time
Using a trackpad or mouse is for newbs. Any time I can get a keyboard shortcut to do something, I prefer using it to actually...
Customize OS X With This Giant List Of 63 Defaults Hacks For The Terminal
Customizing OS X isn’t the easiest thing to do if you’re the type of person who likes to tinker and make things your own. There...
“It’s how you use it” revisited
Last week my colleague Nic Lake wrote an article about the way he uses his Apple hardware and what tasks he delegates to certain devices....
Try out the latest and greatest with WebKit Nightlies
Apple isn’t as willy-nilly with their browser release schedule as Google is with Chrome or Mozilla is with Firefox. While Apple is hard at work...
It’s how you use it
One of the questions that I’m constantly asked by people regarding my Apple products is “how do you use it?” For years, this was an...
Get the MacUpdate Spring Bundle — 11 Apps for $49.99
MacUpdate is now offering their spring software bundle, featuring 11 great apps for only $49.99. This year’s software package includes VMware Fusion 4, DriveGenius 3,...
Dealing with SPAM in OS X Mail and iCloud
Over the last few months I started receiving an increasing amount of spam mails through my iCloud addresses (*@me.com). Being very careful with those, determining...